REPLICATION MATERIAL FOR
"Takkiaan or Anti-Takkiaan? Explaining Dutch Politicians’ Preferences for Democratisation in 1894"

Working paper
Author: Victor Ellenbroek

Instructions: Download pro-Tak data in folder called "datasets". Also create an "output" folder in working directory. Set the file path at the top of the dofiles. All tables/figures will both be shown in the dialogue screen and saved in the output folder.

Dofile 1_threat_land.do will replicate the analyses and robustness checks pertaining to the threat and land hypotheses in the paper. 

Dofile 2_elecincentives_1 will replicate the analyses for the first Electoral Incentives Hypothesis, and generate the predictive probabilities plots for the Wealth*Liberal and Petition*Religious interactions. 

Dofile 3_elecincentives_2 will replicate the analyses for the second Electoral Incentives Hypothesis, and generate the marginal effects figures for Wealth*Liberal*ElectoralSecurity and for Petition*Religious*ElectoralSecurity. 

DATA SOURCES
- Election and candidate data: Huygens Institute “Election Database Tweede Kamer 1848–1918” (https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/verkiezingentweedekamer/inleiding) 
- Party labels: parlement.com (Montesquieu Institute) and Huygens candidate lists.
- Socioeconomic variables: Historische Database Nederlandse Gemeenten (HDNG, 1889/1899 census); provincial tax reports (1882–1885) for per-capita tax revenue.
- 1878 anti-secular education petition (digitised and aggregated to districts) from Katholiek Documentatiecentrum (also found in HDNG).
- Strikes data from Labour Conflicts in the Netherlands (https://datasets.iisg.amsterdam/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:10622/APNT4U) 

See paper for more information. 
